Francis Maude was visiting the East Midlands on Monday 19
January 2015 to champion charities, volunteers and social
enterprises and took the opportunity to meet the team and patients
at the Dental Care Centre, Bedford.

He also took the time to meet one of the patients, Harvey
Harrison aged 12 from Bedford, who was booked in for a regular
check-up and confided in the Minister that he quite liked his
dentist, Anne McDonald, as she was 'very chatty and explained what
was going on.'

Alison Reid, CDS's Chief Executive, said

"It was a pleasure to welcome the Minister to the Dental Care
Centre and share with him the work we do at CDS with some of the
most vulnerable in society, as well as the high quality and
specialist dental services we provide. As a champion of
Social Enterprises and not for profit organisations, Francis was
very interested in the challenges we encounter as well as the very
real benefits we deliver to the communities in which we
operate. He was most impressed with the passion of the team,
calming environment we have created for our patients and the fully
equipped mobile dental unit we use to deliver services to people
who find it difficult to travel to our clinics."